Retro Review: BA-55

[martinot]

(02-21-2018 01:29 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  

(02-21-2018 09:11 AM)martinot Wrote:  I just see that on some current calculators, TI have changed from the old [y^x] button to a [X^□] button (which I think makes more sense on an algebraic calculator, if you think about the order of the arguments).

Good catch, I missed that one, Martinot!

Yes. It looks like TI just used to copy some of the key labels from the HP (RPN) calculators like the [y^x] without too much thinking, and now days has changed to copy the [X^□] keys from Casio calculators (which is more appropriate for an algebraic calculator:

(02-21-2018 01:29 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  Speaking of the TI-36X Pro, what is up with the arithmetic operation keys being silver on silver? That has always bugged me on that model.

Yes, that looks like it would be very difficult to see under less than optimal conditions. Very strange, and probably very bad, choice by TI. They can do better than that (and also does on some other of their models).